Originally Posted by
diburning
Bubble tea shops (which are Taiwanese in origin) often have oolong milk tea as a menu option. I've never tried it, but I'd imagine that most if not all teas (with tea leaves, not teas like rooibos or yerba mate) will taste fine with milk.
Don’t they roast oolong before making it with milk? (Similar to how many of the Japanese green teas can be roasted to make hojicha; less bitter, with a “warmer”, nuttier flavour that would combine better with milk than its previous green identity - green matcha tea powder is different as it is so robust and assertive that it holds its own in milk drinks and desserts, same goes for other teas ground into powder). As I said, Oolong is its own world.
All I do know, having absent mindedly poured milk into green (Japanese sencha) tea when making it alongside English style black tea, is that not all teas taste fine with milk
